EPISODE THREE – INDISTINGUISHABLE
Cristina stretched her arms out as she rose from her bed. It was a
bright morning and the sunlight flooded into her room. She could smell
something like bacon and eggs. Could her mom be making breakfast for her on a
weekday? That was something that never happened in her household. She
quickly got out of bed, put her slippers on and made her way out of her room.
As she got into the stairway, she could smell the food even more. It smelt so
wonderful; Cristina couldn't wait to get a bite on the food. She stepped in
the kitchen and saw the plate on the table. Her mother smiled at her and
gestured for her to sit down.
"This is different mom, what's with the breakfast?" asked Cristina.
"Are you complaining? I guess I will just have to take this away
then," said Maria.
"No, no, no…That's okay, I am really hungry mom. Keep this up and
you'll be running for mother of the year award," said Cristina.
She lifted the first piece of bacon from her plate and put it in her
mouth. It tasted so good; it felt as though it melted in her mouth.
"This is so good mom, you've got to make this more often," said
Cristina.
"It's like you've never had bacon before," said Maria.
"Well, not often," said Cristina looking at her mother with an
expression that said she needed to make it more often.
"Oh yeah, I meant to ask you. How is the progress with your sister
going? Is she going to come back? After her call a couple weeks ago, I felt
like she was going to return to us. Have you talked to her lately?" asked
Maria.
"Yeah, a couple of days ago. She said she might come visit soon,"
said Cristina.
It had been almost a month since Cristina had defeated Victoria and
since Beverley had tried to kill their mother and Cristina was still no closer
to figuring out how to help her sister. She had managed to calm her mother
down with some help from Evelyn. They got one of the kids at school to
pretend to be Beverley, call the house and apologize to their mother. It had
worked like a charm because Maria had believed every word of it. Since then,
Maria hadn't worried that much because she thought Beverley was okay.
Cristina hated lying to her mother but it was the only way to make sure her
mother was okay. Maria was slowly getting more and more worried everyday so
Cristina was going to have to come up with something as soon as possible or
her mother would freak out. Evelyn was on top of it and Simran was getting
very suspicious of them. He knew something was up because they were in the
library too much and they were always doing weird things. He had even caught
Cristina fighting a vampire but luckily he thought she was fighting someone on
the street. In the last month, Cristina had only to kill a few vampires, as
there weren't as many roaming about Richmond Hill. Cristina had decided that
today was the day that she was going to tell Simran about her vampire
slaying. He was her good friend now and she believed he deserved to know.
She had talked it over with Evelyn and Jack and Jack had agreed that he was
trustworthy enough. According to the laws of the slayer, they are not allowed
to tell anyone about their secret unless approved by their watcher. But since
Jack had said it was okay, she was going to tell him. She was really hoping
that he didn't get mad at her for lying this whole time. She was sure he
wouldn't though because he was such a nice guy. She looked back at her mom
and stopped her daydreaming.
"Hurry up and finish your breakfast or you're going to be late for
school," said Maria.
"Oh my god, I still have to get ready," said Cristina.
Cristina jumped from her chair, gave her mom a kiss on the cheek
thanking her for the breakfast and made her way upstairs. She quickly jumped
into the shower, got changed and made her way back downstairs to run to
school. She had told Evelyn to go school on her own that day so they could
follow through with their plan.
Beverley stood over the table where Victoria lay limp. For a whole
month, she had been treating Victoria with blood and she was getting stronger
but she still hadn't awoken from her deep sleep. Victoria would only reach
full strength if her sire, the vampire who created her, gave her some of his
blood. Victoria's sire was the ancient vampire, Su-Eong, who died recently
from the slayer previous to Cristina. Beverley thought for a moment and then
called one of the other vampires over.
"Tonight, you must go and fetch something for me," said Beverley.
"And what is that?" asked the vampire.
"At the nearby high school in the library, there is a book called
Demascus Vampirus which may hold the key to an extraordinary spell," said
Beverley.
"I will bring it if it helps to destroy the slayer," said the vampire.
Beverley thought for a moment, wondering if her plan would work. She
would attempt to use the resurrection spell to bring back Su-Eong to help
eliminate the slayer and to conquer the world. It would also help bring back
Victoria's strength. It was a plan that was a definite tool for success.
Nida made her way out of the gym and into the locker room. She loved
having a quick workout at school in the morning before classes started because
it made her feel fresh. She opened her lock and put her stuff down on the
nearby bench. She needed to have a shower before she left because she had
sweat from her workout. Nida was about to close her locker when she heard a
sound come from the shower area.
"Hello," said Nida.
No one answered and so Nida figured she was just hearing things. She
closed her locker and took one step towards the shower area when she heard the
sound again. She was starting to get a little scared but figured it was
someone's idea of a stupid joke.
"Hello," said Nida for a second time.
She made her way into the shower area and saw nothing. She decided
that she would have a quick shower and then get out of there. She turned on
the tap and the hot steaming water came out. She took her towel off and
placed in on the side. She suddenly felt a chill, like someone had just
walked by her. She had also heard a sound again like a young girls voice.
Again, Nida figured she was hearing things until the voice became clear. It
was calling her name and it sounded as though it was in the same area as her.
She backed into the hot water and it felt good on her face, but still, the
voice disturbed her. She looked carefully around her and saw nothing until
one of the shower taps at the other end of the room turned on. Nida screamed
as each of the taps turned on, one by one, making their way towards her. She
back up into the wall and hoped whatever it was would go away. She looked
carefully and saw air rising every so often, like someone was breathing, but
no one was there. She tried to look harder, but still she couldn't see
anything until something bashed directly into her, smashing her to the
ground. She looked up and saw a figure highlighted by the water. It was
though the person was invisible. She saw the figure back out of the water and
disappear again. She slowly got up on her feet and looked in front of her as
a knife came plunging into her stomach. She could feel her blood rushing from
her stomach like the flow of river rapids. She fell over on the ground as the
figure disappeared again, and finally Nida could see no more.
Cristina walked down the hall that lead to the library. She hoped
that Evelyn had brought Simran there because she was going to tell him about
her secret. It was still twenty minutes before class and that would just give
her enough time to tell him. She stepped towards the library doors and pushed
them open. Sitting at the desk in the middle of the dark library was Jack,
Simran and Evelyn. She walked over to them and said her good mornings.
"So, how's everyone today?" asked Cristina.
"Well, considering we have a chemistry test second period, not so
good. I wish there was a way out of it because I am definitely not ready for
it," said Simran.
"You're not the only one," said Evelyn.
"So, should we go to class then. Not that we don't like hanging out
in the library with you Jack, it's just that, well, it's the library. And
unless we have a good reason to be here, I don't see why we would want to hang
out here," said Simran.
"Well, there was something I wanted to tell you Simran," said Cristina.
"Oh yeah, what's that?" asked Simran.
"Well...it's going to sound kind of weird but, I wanted to…"
"Is it that vampire thing? Because I already know about that," said
Simran.
"You what?" screamed Evelyn.
"It's not like you guys were good at hiding her secret from me, I knew
all along. But you should be a little careful because I figured it out long
time ago. Then I read up on it and now I know. That's about it," said Simran.
"Well, that makes it a lot easier for me. Are you mad?" asked
Cristina.
"No, I totally understand why you couldn't tell me. Don't worry, I
could never be mad at you," said Simran.
"Thanks," said Cristina.
"Looks like we have another helper on our side," said Jack.
Cristina, Simran, Jack and Evelyn stood with the crowd of students
that gathered around the girl's locker room to get a peek in. Cristina still
didn't know what had happened but she figured it wasn't something good since
the paramedics started rolling a body out on a stretcher.
"Okay kids, nothing to see here, keep moving," said one of the
paramedics.
Cristina turned to one of the students next to her to ask him what
happened.
"Some girl, a grade ten kid, was stabbed in the stomach. She lost so
much blood and they are going to take her to the hospital," said the student.
"Oh my god, are you serious," said Evelyn.
"How could this have happened?" asked Simran.
"Probably some kids idea of a sick prank gone too far, I guess," said
Cristina.
An announcement came on and everyone stood still to hear it. Classes
were to be cancelled for the rest of the day because of the accident.
"This means we don't have to write that Chem test," said Simran.
"Yeah, but a girl was almost killed, she might not even survive and
all your worried about is a Chemistry test?" asked Evelyn.
"Never mind," said Simran.
The four of them walked away from the girl's locker room and made
their way back to the library in silence. As soon as they got in to the
library, they started talking.
"So, are we saying that this was a regular murder thing or are we
going with paranormal, since we are in the town of weird?" asked Cristina.
"Well, chances are, if it was a stabbing then it is probably human but
I will check my books anyways. Why don't you help me Evelyn," said Jack.
"Sure thing!" said Evelyn.
"Cristina, why don't you take Simran and check out the girls
bathroom. The paramedics should be out of there by now and no one will go in
there because it's a crime scene. See if you can find any clues," said Jack.
Just as the gang was about to split up to solve the problem, there was
a knock at the library door. Diana stood there smiling.
"May I come in?" asked Diana.
"Um…you…Of course, come right in," said Jack.
Simran, Evelyn and Cristina all looked at Jack and then laughed
quietly. It was so obvious that Jack was awestruck every time Diana, the
science teacher, walked into the vicinity.
"I need to find a book for my next science class," said Diana.
"Of course! What book specifically?" asked Jack.
"Experiments: 1 2 3!" said Diana.
"Yes, I have that one, let me show you," said Jack.
The two of them headed toward the back of the library to find the
book. Cristina, Simran and Evelyn all looked at each other and laughed again.
"He's so pathetic sometimes," said Cristina.
"I know," said Evelyn.
"Well, we should go check out the bathroom," said Simran.
"Okay, sounds good," said Cristina.
The two of them left the library and Evelyn sat down at one of the
tables to wait for Jack to finish talking to Diana.
Cristina pushed the door to the girls bathroom open making sure no one
was watching and Simran followed. The first part of the room was the lockers.
"So this is what the girls locker room looks like," said Simran.
"Don't get any ideas," said Cristina.
The two of them crept towards the showers where they could see yellow
caution tape. Cristina lifted the tape and walked into the shower area while
Simran headed towards more lockers. Simran walked from aisle to aisle of
lockers and saw nothing. He thought to himself why the girls got a much
larger locker room. There were just as many guys as girls in the school, why
should they get a bigger room. Simran kept walking until the last row of
lockers where a knife sat on the bench, covered in dried red blood. He walked
closer and then looked up again.
"Hey Cristina! I think you should come here," said Simran.
Simran looked back down at the bench and saw the knife wasn't there
anymore. He quickly jumped back not believing what he had just saw. Cristina
came around the corner and saw the look of disbelief on Simran's face.
"What? What is it?" asked Cristina.
"I could swear I just saw a knife on the bench and now it's gone,"
said Simran.
"What do you mean, gone?" asked Cristina.
"I swear, it was there and I looked up for a second and now it's
disappeared," said Simran.
Cristina turned around and walked away and just as Simran was about to
turn around to follow her, he felt a fist hit him directly in the face. He
went flying to the ground making a loud bang against the lockers. Cristina
quickly turned around again to see nothing there.
"Who is it?" asked Cristina.
She listened and there was no sound at all. All of a sudden, Cristina
could hear a low voice calling to her. Cristina had good hearing and she
could pinpoint the location of the voice. She would have to time it well or
she might miss the person and lose the advantage of surprise. The voice
sounded like a girls but how could someone be invisible? Cristina thought to
herself for a second and then realized what she was saying. Anything weird
could happen in Richmond Hill. The voice continued and Cristina realized that
is was about four or five feet directly in front of her. Cristina lunged at
the voice feeling her fist hit something and knocking it to the ground. She
quickly grabbed a hold of the body as Simran woke up.
"Quick, help me get this body to the library for Jack to see," said
Cristina.
"What body?" asked Simran.
"Hurry, before she wakes up!" screamed Cristina.
Simran ran over to her and grabbed a hold of something that felt like
feet. He couldn't believe he was holding an invisible person in his hands.
They lifted the body in the air and began carrying it towards the exit to the
bathroom. They reached the door and made their way into the hall, glad that
no one was there. They began running towards the library and made it into the
doors without anyone seeing them. As soon as they entered, Jack and Evelyn
came running to them.
"What the hell?" said Evelyn.
"It's an invisible person," said Simran.
"Hmmm…." pondered Jack.
"What?" asked Cristina.
"Let me check my books for anything on invisibility," said Jack.
"And what are we supposed to do with her?" asked Cristina.
"How do you know it's a her?" asked Evelyn.
"She was whispering my name," said Cristina.
"Does that mean it is just a person at school?" asked Simran.
"Aha!" shouted Jack.
"What is it?" asked Evelyn.
"According to this book, people throughout the centuries who practiced
witchcraft would always attempt a certain spell for invisibility. When the
spell would be cast, it would not only give them invisibility but cause the
spell caster to lose all inhibitions and attempt to murder everyone around
them," read Jack.
"That would explain a lot," said Cristina.
Just as they were all about to sit down to look further into the case,
the invisible figure spun and jumped up kicking Cristina in the face, knocking
her to the ground. Simran attempted to jump at the invisible person but only
managed to land on her feet. He grabbed on tightly not letting go. He saw
Cristina get up and lunge at the figure knocking her to the ground. Simran
got up and helped keep the girl pinned to the ground.
"Let go of me now or I will kill all of you," said the girl.
Cristina lifted her hand to punch the girl when Jack yelled at her to
stop.
"You can't hurt her, she isn't controlling herself. When that spell
is cast, a demon is summoned and possesses the body. The girl is not
controlling her own body, it's a demon," said Jack.
"What do we do then?" asked Evelyn.
"We have to find a spell to release the demon and we might need some
ingredients from the science lab," said Jack.
"Well write me a list, I will go grab them," said Simran.
Everyone worked hard for the next hour until finally everything was
ready to eliminate the demon from the body. The three of them gathered in a
circle around Cristina and the girl, who was now struggling even harder to get
away. Jack began chanting in a very unusual language; some words that were
hopefully going to help save the girl. Simran was sprinkling oregano on the
invisible girl while Evelyn was drawing symbols on the floor with chalk. All
of a sudden, a bolt of blue light came shinning from the ceiling and hit the
girl just as Cristina jumped away.
"That was a little weird for me, never seen anything like that," said
Simran.
Slowly, the girl began to appear and finally she was whole again. She
fell to the ground, unconscious. Everyone took a sigh of relief.
It was the next morning and everyone was in the library again. They
had heard the news about Nida, the girl in the hospital. It turned out that
she was found just in time and would make it through her ordeal all right.
The girl that they had saved the day before was Katherine, one of the students
at the school. They had taken her to her house and put her in her bed.
"Do you think Katherine will be okay?" asked Evelyn.
"Yes, but I am afraid she will remember everything which means she
probably knows your secret Cristina," said Jack.
"But having a witch on our side is a good thing right?" asked Simran.
"She is obviously inexperienced because she couldn't understand a
simple spell like invisibility," said Jack.
The door to the library swung open and Katherine came in. She looked
at everyone and walked over to them.
"Um…I just came to say thank you," said Katherine.
"Don't worry about it," said Cristina.
Katherine turned around and began to walk out of the library but
stopped. She turned back around to say one more thing.
"Your secret is safe with me, Cristina," said Katherine.
She smiled and walked out of the library.